Rule No. 13 of the U.S. Golf Association says you must play the ball as it lies. Fox Cities Housing Coalition Vice President Joe Mauthe used that analogy to describe one of the major findings from a months-long examination of the...
Civil rights lawyers are using a new strategy to change a common court practice that they have long argued unfairly targets the poor. At issue is the way courts across the country sometimes issue arrest warrants for indigent people when they...
Among 96 former Swiss indentured child laborers, 22 individuals showed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and 53 reported having experienced childhood trauma. Men reported a significantly higher prevalence of both sexual...
It's easy to stumble upon some syringes and blame addicts for ruining the town. But no one is born with a needle in his arm or a pipe in her mouth. Research shows that adverse childhood experiences can influence addiction, obesity and mental...
It's been a year since thousands of unaccompanied minors surged into the U.S., overwhelming some school districts. These children, many of whom don't speak English and have lived through violence, trauma and abuse, pose a serious challenge to...
In the first episode of This American Life ’s two-part series on school segregation, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argues what many in the education community already know: school integration works as a...
The Army is placing medical officials in charge of substance abuse treatment for soldiers in the wake of a USA TODAY investigation that uncovered poor treatment and a spike in suicides among those suffering addiction. Army...
The day of his high school graduation, like so many of the days before, began with chaos. Ruleville Central had pledged to lock its front doors an hour before the ceremony to prevent a crowd overflow, and Jadareous Davis was still at his...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Seventeen dollars per person, per day. That’s the United States government’s official definition of poverty, if...
T he unthinkable has occurred in our city: three mothers throwing their infant children out of windows in the space of three months. We can and must do better if we hope to prevent future horrors. Maternal mental illness is...
What's it like to be; The admitting person in the psychiatric war d of a metro hospital turning away violently troubled childre n because there is no space? HCMC in Minneapolis averages about 900 emergency psych visits a month, many...
Does welfare corrupt the poor? Few ideas are so deeply ingrained in the American popular imagination as the belief that government aid for poor people will just encourage bad behavior. The proposition is particularly cherished on the...
The Rev. Donté L. Hickman Sr., pastor of one of this city’s largest African-American churches, wrapped up a fiery, foot-stomping sermon one recent Sunday with a somber request. “Pray for the city and the mayor,” he...
One hundred twenty of the nation's top police chiefs and prosecutors are joining forces today to launch a new effort to cut the number of people in prison. The new coalition of heavyweights, called Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration, is based on one big idea: putting too many people behind bars doesn't keep the public safe. "Our experience has been, and in some ways it's counter-intuitive, that you really can reduce crime and incarceration at the same time,"...
More and more schools are trying to serve meals with food that was grown nearby. The U.S. Department of Agriculture just released some statistics documenting the trend. According to this "census" of farm-to-school programs, at least...